Winners of the Pirate Flix Video Remix contest

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Pirate Flix Video Remix contest and especially to those who braved the rain to come out to Brooklyn's WORD books tonight. Herein presented are the winners of the contest, starting with Diran Lyons's first-place-winning 99 Problems (Explicit Political Remix).

Second place went to Stebbokun's thrilling FURY Trailer.

And runner-up goes to Soda_Jerk's "The Dawn of Remix (excerpt: Hollywood Burn, 2011)".

The political message here is un-nuanced and off-base. Amazed by how the people attacking Obama from the left are almost always men from the creative class (usually white too, although not in this case). They have much less to lose if Romney wins. You never hear this stuff from women, low-wage workers, etc…

I gather you mean remixing videos to 99 problems. I’m not sure that’s a meme, is it? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t.

But I don’t think that disqualifies it from being appreciated after 2004. Video remixing may be fun and quirky but it’s an artform in itself, a tricky one at that.

I enjoyed it anyway – and my point was that just because it’s been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done again (especially when done so well). I’ve seen more oil paintings of guys in wigs than I could shake a stick at, but it doesn’t reduce the artform to a meme.

Edit: BB, why do you insist on using an outdated version of Disqus? I’m currently typing into a box barely big enough to see a single word.

Because Disqus 2012 does absolutely nothing except remove the settings page that allows us to control appearance. The comment box is fixed and immovable at the top of the thread, the sort order defaults to Newest First and the page only loads 30 comments at a time, all of which undermine the already weak hope that commenters will read the thread before commenting.

We’ve tried to foster a real conversation, and they’ve tried to turn it into Twitter.